Friday, February 28

They don’t just get white by themselves do they? During the
winter in the years of WWII the soldiers on the frontline often whitewashed
their vehicles to help conceal them from the enemy – well Evolution
Miniatures has made a new set of three soldiers in 35th scale
that represent just this, let’s have a look at them in our build review…

Tuesday, February 25

Pathos Miniatures
from Sunny Greece - We have kept an eye on the new company’s releases and
January saw the release of this figure – titled “Budapest 1945 SS Totenkopf Division” this bust features one of the
hardest soldiers of the German Reich in some of the harshest conditions – let’s
see what Pathos came up with in our review…

Need a vignette of a street corner in Germany during WWII? Destroyed rubble and wooden
frame house? Enough pavement to house a few figures and blown up and destroyed
looking to boot?Well Verlinden might
have just the thing for you this month – we review their new “Ruined Fachwerkhaus” dio in today’s news..

Sunday, February 23

Diego Fortes from Fortes Miniatures has
clearly been watching a few maritime movies in the “Master and Commander” mode.
As he has just sculpted and released the figure he has created of the young Midshipman of
that movie – check him out in our review of Diego’s latest released work…

Thursday, February 20

Nothing makes me feel like a kid as a model-kit
catalogue. I remember the fun I had when I received a catalogue and scribbled
an “x” next to the models I wanted to have and build. Each time I took it, more writing appeared in them... I guess I
liked all of the kits...

Tuesday, February 18

Stop sniffing in boxes at garage-sales or dusty attics for that old 1/48 scale Matchbox Kaman Seasprite – Kitty Hawk produced
a new one and it sure is a nice one! The Seasprite was the last helicopter that
Kaman produced in numbers and although only 184 of the early SH-2 were built,
it was for almost 40 years in service with the US Navy.

Monday, February 17

Art of Modelling: For a long time one of the best magazines
available on the hobby. But until up to now only available (in hard copy) in Dutch,
French & German. However now the English speakers are in for a treat as we
have the first volume of the English version of this mag up for review – how does
it fare? Well read on to find out if it is indeed art we can appreciate…

Sunday, February 16

We were recently very glad to see the new MENG Me-163 Komet rocket
fighter in 32nd scale hit our workbench. Firstly as it was a marked
upgrade on our older Hasegawa kit and secondly we knew we would be getting a lot
of aftermarket stuff to match it. Well that has happened for both of these kits
with new mainwheels from Barracuda
Studios that claim to improve on both the Hasegawa AND the MENG offering –
but are they indeed an improvement? Read on to see…

Saturday, February 15

D-Day Miniature Studio
has been sending regular updates of a steadily improving and increasing range
of figures – this month they have two new “Tommies” in 35th as a set
and singularly as well as some tiny Germans that have lost no detail due t their
diminutive 72nd scale. Let’s take a look shall we?

We finish
with a flap – or two Gary’s “trilogy” of Eduard Photo etched improvement kits
for the Tupolev Tu-2 from Xuntong models. These sets add a lot of depth to the
wings and if you have this kit they are worth a look.

Friday, February 14

Hobbyboss continue
down and expected path with this month’s releases – from a modern Swedish tank,
to a Renault from France and an obscure tank from the soviets in WWII there is
also an “E” model intruder in this month’s preview…

Thursday, February 13

We have previewed the new 1/32nd scale Horten Ho-229 from Zoukei-Mura recently – and we have even
been shown a lovely “Horten Ho-229 see-thu
kit” from the SWS manufacturers – but now it is the turn of the fan of
the P-51 Mustang – one of if not the most famous fighter plane in history –
Zoukei Mura has produced the famous “D” version in 1/32nd scale to some acclaim
– now it takes in the younger and improved "Early D" & “K” version as well as incorporating the British Mustang IV to get the comprehensive inside out
treatment by this Japanese juggernaut.

Tuesday, February 11

Recently Stalingrad
Miniatures released a large set of ten Panzermen of the German armoured
forces in the time of “Operation Dynamo” – the battle of the Kursk Salient in
1943 – as a taster we thought we would build and review one of the figures and
show you his qualities…

Monday, February 10

OK the Tupolev Tu-2 kit from Xuntong arguably isn’t much of a draw card to a lot of modellers out there - but
we think with the new Eduard
additives into the mix it can be quite something of a little project – so Gary has put together
three reviews of the different Eduard parts for this kit. The reviews are very
good so we thought we would give each of them their time in the sun separately.
Today we start with the Interior upgrade
set….

Sunday, February 9

To the surprise and delight of many the
Japanese manufacturer Zoukei Mura
released a smaller 48th scale version of their popular Shinden fighter. We got
this review submitted from our good friend Thomas from Scale
Plastic Aircraft Modeller and we thought in the tradition of sharing is
caring thought we should bring it to you in today’s news...

Saturday, February 8

Ampersand Publishing
have taken it upon themselves to send us one of, if not my favorite periodicals
MMiR - No 59 in the series get’s a review today –
we will see if this one lives up to my own high expectations for this series of
mags…

Thursday, February 6

Pathos Miniatures are
a few releases old now – they have several creative and diverse busts already
in their cannon and an interesting one planned in a scarred German soldier –
but today we thought we would start you off with the kid of the family – to be
specific a teenager – “Hellboy” – also known as “Big Red”

Tuesday, February 4

Now when the T-6 “Texan” was announced by KittyHawk in
1/32nd scale a fair few people got very excited – and one of those people is our
man Nic who got his kit last week – and has already finished it! We thought we
would shoot you his build report as soon as possible so you can get a better
feel for the kit...

Monday, February 3

The little Fiat kit in 35th scale from Bronco has been a very useful new tool
for them - This is the fourth development of this tiny car, so we thought we
would build one to see how it goes together – We threw it at Clayton who likes
small vehicles – with a gulp he dove right out of his comfort zone into the
build and diorama to suit it…

Sunday, February 2

Andrea Miniatures continue
to do what they do best – Wild West colonial figures and sassy Pyn-ups which
cover most of the tastes of the target audience – we show you their two latest
additions to the range of figures for January in our preview…